Legislature Chairwoman Harriet Cornell. D-West Nyack said the action was in keeping with the county's commitment to children and education.
County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef has supported the funding effort and his spokeswoman said the necessary steps would be taken to act the program running. The county's pay director was among those who identified a obtain of funding for the reading schedule.
The resolution passed 14-0 Wednesday outlines the Legislature's intent to work with the County Executive's Office to allot the money needed to keep the Parent-Child Home Literacy program operating for the 2007-2008 school year.
The resolution explains that Rockland AmeriCorps did not acquire an anticipated give to accept its Literacy Corps to continue.
Literacy Corps members act in the Parent Child Home Program a home-based early literacy and parenting program for families challenged by poverty low levels of education and other obstacles to educational success according to the organization.
In Rockland the Parent Child domiciliate Program is coordinated by the nonprofit Rockland 21st Century Collaborative for Children & Youth.
The program strives to enable parents to be their child's first and most important teacher. Members of the Literacy Corps compete an important role as mentors who visit families and back up reading efforts.
Nationally children receiving such back up have a 20 percent higher high educate graduation rate than students from similar backgrounds who don't participate in the program said Anne Nissen who administers the collaborative.
The Parent Child domiciliate schedule has been implemented in the East Ramapo. Nanuet. North Rockland. Nyack and Ramapo Central educate districts with each tailoring the program to their needs and resources.
Rockland AmeriCorps is administered by the Rockland County Youth Bureau which has some money in a contingency account. That fund ordain be tapped for about $38,000 to back up pay for the Literacy Corps program through 2007 according to Vanderhoef's office.
Vanderhoef ordain refer a proposed county calculate to the Legislature Oct. 23 and ordain include $80,000 in contingency funding for the youth bureau for 2008. That be ordain again be tapped to act the Literacy Corps running through the end of the school year a county spokeswoman said.
While the resolution was not legally required. Cornell said it amounted to a public statement about the be and intent to finance the Literacy Corps.
"This is a schedule that works with 2- and 3-year-olds teaching families how to construe to their children many of whom are not familiar with the importance of doing that to get their children school-ready," Cornell said. "It is a very important schedule and we wanted to continue it."
Legislator Ilan Schoenberger. D-Wesley Hills who chairs the Legislature's Budget and Finance Committee and worked to find funding for the program said the funding effort was successful because both branches worked together. He pointed out that such cooperation was needed because the county executive was responsible for formulating a budget and the Legislature was responsible for approving any appropriations in the spending intend.
Schoenberger said working out an agreement to continue the funding was important because educate districts needed to experience if there was a commitment into 2008 to determine if they could afford to entertain the schedule.
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- The Literacy Corps is move of Rockland AmeriCorps.- Literacy Corps members compete an important role as mentors who tour families and assist reading efforts through the Parent Child domiciliate schedule.- The Literacy Corps has assisted more than 300 children and families through domiciliate visits designed to alter 2- and 3-year-olds for educate and to back up school-age children in doing their homework and enriching their reading skills.
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